Raven on Going From a Producer on WWE RAW to ECW Champion | Notsam Wrestling Interview
Notsam Wrestling
Sam Roberts
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Sam Roberts talks to Raven about his new documentary, his time in WWE and becoming a behind the scenes producer, going to ECW, his Barely Legal match with Terry Funk, storytelling, his WCW run, and more
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| 0:00.0 | This is Not Sam Wrestling. |
| 0:07.4 | Introducing your host from New York, here is Sam Roberts. |
| 0:15.7 | Oh, we got a special one today. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to Not Sam Wrestling. |
| 0:19.2 | It's an interview show. |
| 0:21.6 | You know, I'll never forget where I was when I started watching ECW. |
| 0:28.9 | Growing up in New York, finding ECW on television, being a part of the fan base that was all rallying, hoping, praying that one day |
| 0:42.7 | the little organization that could would make it to pay-per-view, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000. |
| 0:51.4 | It was a beautiful, beautiful time for professional wrestling. And one of the main reasons for |
| 0:57.8 | that was one of the biggest superstars in ECW. I watched for the Sandman. I watched for |
| 1:04.8 | Saboo, Rob Van Dam, New Jack Tommy Dreamer, but standing out above maybe all of them, just in terms of sheer |
| 1:15.2 | character work was Raven. Raven is an incredibly interesting guy going from ECW to WCW to WCW to |
| 1:24.7 | W-E to TNA to Ring of Honor, but before he was Raven, he had a run. |
| 1:30.8 | He had a run in WCW as Scotty Flamingo. |
| 1:34.3 | He had a run in Portland as Scotty the Body. |
| 1:36.9 | He had a run in W.W.E as Johnny Polo and then completely reinvented himself, not just in terms |
| 1:42.9 | of being a professional wrestler, |
| 1:45.1 | but I think found the character that he was meant to be as a human being. |
| 1:50.6 | He has a documentary out. |
| 1:52.2 | It's called Nevermore, The Raven Effect. |
| 1:56.4 | It's available on Amazon Prime. |
| 1:58.0 | And it really is an incredible story of not just the wrestling |
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